Showing posts with label goodness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goodness. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Post #2812

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
—Bishop Hall

Monday, April 22, 2019

Post #2811

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
—Martial

Friday, April 19, 2019

Post #2810

He that does good to another man does also good to himself, not only in the consequence, but in the very act of dorng it; for the consciousness of well-doing is an ample reward.
—Seneca

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Post #2657

It is not goodness to be better than the very worst.
—Seneca

Monday, September 17, 2018

Post #2656

He is good that does good to others.
—Jean de La Bruyère

Monday, April 16, 2018

Post #2556

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope

Friday, March 16, 2018

Post #2535

Man should be ever better than he seems.
—Sir Aubrey de Vere

Monday, November 02, 2015

Post #1936

Count That Day Lost

If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
                    And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
                    One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went --
Then you may count that day well spent.

But if, through all the livelong day,
You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay --
                    If, through it all
You've nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face--
                    No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost --
Then count that day as worse than lost.
—George Eliot 

Friday, October 30, 2015

Post #1935

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
—A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare

Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Post #1828

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
―Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Post #1802

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
—Benjamin Franklin 

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Post #960

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your own riches but to reveal to him his own.
—Benjamin Disraeli

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Post #878

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
—Shari R. Barr

Monday, August 13, 2007

Post #14

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
—W. H. Auden

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Post #7

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
—Erma Bombeck

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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